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Jul 31, 2017 · Jeanne Moreau: 1928-2017. Jeanne Moreau, one of the greatest film actresses of all time, had an English mother and a French father. An avid reader who identified most with the rebellious Antigone, Moreau defied her disapproving father to train at the Comédie-Française, where she soon became pregnant by a fellow student named Jean-Louis Richard.
4:47:59. Until the End of the World. With her smoldering magnetism and fierce intelligence (likened by Patti Smith to “a barbed-wire fence on fire”), French screen siren Jeanne Moreau breathed unforgettable life into some of the most complex women in all of twentieth-century cinema. Already a successful stage actor when she came to ...
Jul 31, 2017 · Jeanne Moreau, who appeared in over 130 films over a period of sixty-five years and was declared “the greatest actress in the world” by none other than Orson Welles, has passed away in Paris at the age of eighty-nine. She worked with Jean Gabin in Jacques Becker’s Touchez pas au grisbi (1954), and took the lead in Louis Malle’s Elevator to the Gallows (1958). François Truffaut ...
Jul 31, 2017 · Jeanne Moreau, the actor best known for her performance in French New Wave classic Jules et Jim, has died aged 89 at her home in Paris, her agent has said.. A director, screenwriter and singer as ...
Aug 8, 2017 · The three films directed by Jeanne Moreau, who died last week, at the age of eighty-nine, aren’t readily available, but I’ve seen the first of them, “Lumière,” the quasi-autobiographical ...
Jul 31, 2017 · Jeanne Moreau was born in Paris on Jan. 23, 1928, and grew up in an unhappy home. Her mother was an English-born chorus-line dancer, and her French father, a former cafe owner, was mercurial and ...
Jul 31, 2017 · Jeanne Moreau, whose brooding beauty on display in such films as The Lovers, Jules et Jim and The Bride Wore Black entranced audiences everywhere, died Monday at her home in Paris. She was 89.
